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Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers? Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.
Bill Willingham
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We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
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I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
Bill Willingham
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One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.
Bill Willingham
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Yeah, well my heart bleeds for you: You know what they say. The only easy day was yesterday.
Bill Willingham
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I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.
Bill Willingham
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Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.
Bill Willingham
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Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.
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Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.
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But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.
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Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
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Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.
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He's every adventure I ever want to be on.
Bill Willingham
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Hope has power only when married to personal action.
Bill Willingham
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Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.
Bill Willingham
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Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.
Bill Willingham
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What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy.
Bill Willingham
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Since you types wouldn't be happy unless you're unhappy, I wouldn't dare try to take your joy away by solving your problems.
Bill Willingham
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My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.
Bill Willingham
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Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds.
Bill Willingham
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No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago.
Bill Willingham
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Remember what dad said. You're still alive-- you still fight.
Bill Willingham
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If it's today, you'll know it from the news. If it's a hundred thousand tomorrows from now, you'll know it as a legend. If it's later than that, you'll think it mere myth.
Bill Willingham
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An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.
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